Headquarters United Kingdom | Founded 1986 | |
Sport Newspapers was the English publishing firm responsible for The Daily Sport, Sunday Sport and a number of mid-shelf and top shelf magazine titles such as Adult Sport, Sport Babes, Sport Reader's Wives and Ladsmag. It was founded in 1986 by David Sullivan to launch the Sunday Sport newspaper. The company offices were in Manchester, England.
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An attempt was made to publish a weekly version in Eire called the Irish Weekly Sport but its soft porn triviality proved unpopular within the Republic.
Subsidiaries
Subsidiaries to Sport Newspapers include Flip Media which was set up by Michael Bancroft, a former director of SMD Publishing to publish Front magazine and DVD World.
Administration
On Friday 1 April 2011 the holding company for the firm, Sport Media Group Plc, announced that it had ceased trading, and the company was broken up by administrators.
Successors
Sullivan acquired the rights to some of Sport newspapers and now publishes the Midweek Sport (Wednesdays), Weekend Sport (Fridays) and Sunday Sport, through his new company (also based in Manchester) Sunday Sport (2011) Limited.
Entrepreneur Grant Miller acquired the rights to the Daily Sport and relaunched it online through a new company Daily Sport Limited.
Sport Newspapers Limited and majority executive shareholder Duncan Williams is today primarily focused on developing realtime digital media brands, most particularly within the betting and gaming sector.